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WordPress
WordPress at scale: performance, Core Web Vitals, the block editor, hosting and the plugin ecosystem, measured on real sites rather than on a staging demo.
- 01 Structured Data and AI Answers: What Schema Is Actually Doing for You Now Google says schema is not required for generative AI search. What it does document, what practitioners assume, and how to audit your own graph.
- 02 robots.txt for AI Crawlers: The Actual User-Agent Strings, and What Each One Honours GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and Bingbot, with the real strings and the RFC rule that breaks most AI blocks.
- 03 How to Measure Whether AI Search Sends You Anything Three partial signals and no complete one. Server logs, the new Search Console generative AI report, Bing AI Performance, and each one's limits.
- 04 llms.txt for WordPress: What the Spec Actually Says and Whether Anything Reads It Google says Search does not use llms.txt. What the v2 spec asks for, what WordPress plugins generate instead, and what is still untested.
- 05 Elementor vs Gutenberg in 2026: An Honest Read for People Who Ship WordPress 7.1 loads 140KB of block CSS on every page by default. That is more than Elementor's entire stylesheet. Weight is not the argument.
- 06 Why Elementor Blocks SVG Uploads, and the Security Tradeoff You Are Actually Making I ran Elementor's SVG sanitizer against real payloads. It stops script. It also deletes your blur filters and lets a page-wide style block through.
- 07 Elementor Performance: What Actually Costs You, Measured Elementor's base assets are 87KB. WordPress ships 140KB of block CSS on the same page. Neither is your problem. Three things are.
- 08 Custom Code in Elementor Without a Child Theme: What Survives an Update and What Does Not A theme update deletes the theme directory before copying the new one. That is the mechanism. Here are the five places code can live, and what…
- 09 Scheduling WordPress Content Properly: Why Posts Miss Their Schedule and How to Fix It for Good Eleven overdue posts on a site I run, and the line in wp-cron.php that explains why a missed schedule is an orphan rather than a delay.
- 10 Publishing to WordPress From a Script: The Complete, Correct Way Application Passwords, the posts and media endpoints, and the four things that return HTTP 201 while being wrong.
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